Looking for potential PhD candidates — Parkinson’s disease, motor behavior & AI

We are looking for motivated candidates interested in applying for national or international PhD funding to develop a thesis project at the Cajal Neuroscience Center, CSIC, in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.

The project will combine preclinical mouse experiments and computational behavioral analysis to study how dopaminergic therapies shape motor behavior in Parkinson’s disease and L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia.

The work would include:

? Mouse models of Parkinson’s disease, including 6-OHDA lesions
?️ Building a behavioral setup from scratch: cameras, synchronization, acquisition pipelines and IMU detection
? Behavioral phenotyping: behavioral recordings with video tracking and inertial sensors/IMUs
? Dopaminergic treatments & programmable infusion approaches, including subcutaneous pumps
? Computational analysis: Python/Matlab, machine learning and motor-state decoding




? Translational goals: development of interpretable motor biomarkers with translational potential

This is not a funded position yet. We are looking for strong candidates to apply together for competitive PhD fellowships and national/international funding calls.

We are especially interested in candidates who are genuinely motivated by both sides of the project: hands-on experimental work with animals and computational analysis.

Backgrounds in neuroscience, biomedical sciences, bioengineering, biology, veterinary sciences, physiotherapy, data science or related areas are welcome.

? Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain (partially-remote)
?️ Cajal Neuroscience Center, CSIC

Interested candidates can send me a CV and a brief statement of motivation.

📌 Prospective PhD Candidate – Experimental (Alcalá de Henares)
🏢 CSIC
📍 Alcalá de Henares